Bible dictionaries
Ladder
What Bible dictionaries say about “Ladder”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Ladder - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
Occurs only once, in the account of Jacob's vision (Gen. 28:12).
Ladder - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
LAD'DER, n.
1. A frame of wood, consisting of two side pieces, connected by rounds inserted in them at suitable distances, and thus forming steps, by which persons may ascend a building, _c.
2. That by which a person ascends or rises; means of ascending; as a ladder made of cords.
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder.
3. Gradual rise; elevation.
Mounting fast towards the top of the ladder ecclesiastical.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
lad'-er.
See SIEGE, 4, (e).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915